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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Food Systems Dashboard Is a New Tool to Inform Better Food Policy
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Food Systems
Policymakers often have difficulty accessing and visualizing food systems data, which limits their ability to identify gaps, compare change over time, and develop policies to improve nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Inclusive Food System Transformations for Healthy Diets: National Experiences with a Global Challenge
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Food Systems
Food Security
Each country’s food system is unique. Although context-specific approaches are critical to transforming food systems for better nutrition, policymakers and implementers can learn from each other's successes and challenges.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
FAO e-Learning Academy: Sustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This recently released online course on improving nutrition through agriculture and food systems targets implementers and policymakers. It covers the basics of a value chain approach, fundamental entry points and pathways for improving nutrition, and processes for designing activities and interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 and the Crisis in Food Systems: Symptoms, Causes, and Potential Solutions
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided unexpected insights into the vulnerabilities and strengths of food systems globally.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2020 Hunger Report: Better Nutrition, Better Tomorrow
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Given a confluence of events—from COVID-19 to the Nutrition Growth Summit—2020 is an ideal time for the international community to make progress toward better nutrition. To mobilize support, the report outlines actions that policymakers and partners can take to reduce the burdens of malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
WASH, Nutrition and Child Growth: Webinar Series for Implementing Partners
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Food SafetyNutrition Sensitive AgricultureWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This series of three webinars focuses on the growing body of evidence that persistent exposure to fecal matter causes delays in infant and young child growth and that interventions must go beyond water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) to prevent infection.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Mental Health Modifies the Association of Food Insecurity and Early Child Development
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood Systems
Food Security
How significantly do maternal depression and anxiety affect early childhood development in food-insecure households?
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Conceptualizing Sustainable Diets in Vietnam: Minimum Metrics and Potential Leverage Points
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Safety
Addressing the need for clearly defined and agreed upon intervention points that can effectively enhance diet sustainability in low- and middle-income countries, the authors of this paper worked to develop a conceptual framework for sustainable diets in Vietnam.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Biases in Self-Reported Food Insecurity Measurement: A List Experiment Approach
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Security
Challenges surrounding the impact evaluations of food security programs include issues with both objective and subjective measurements. Exploring the role of bias, researchers compared direct responses to food insecurity questions to indirect responses using a list experiment approach.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Modeling Farming Systems to Understand Potential Outcomes of Agricultural Interventions
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This blog post describes how three recent studies used FarmDESIGN, a farm-household modeling tool, to help researchers analyze smallholder farms in Vietnam and Kenya. Although smallholder farmers are critical to food production in low- and middle-income countries, many are nutritionally vulnerable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Spatiotemporal Trends in Adequacy of Dietary Nutrient Production and Food Sources
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Security
To explore the current state of global food systems, this study examined data related to the production, distribution, processing, and marketing of nutritious foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Home Fortification of Foods with Multiple Micronutrient Powders for Health and Nutrition in Children under Two Years of Age
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Anemia
This article updates a 2011 systematic review that assessed the impact of home fortification of foods with micronutrient powders (MNP) on nutrition, health, and developmental outcomes in children under 2 years of age. It covered 29 studies on 33,147 children in low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean where anemia is prevalent.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Forest Conservation: A Potential Nutrition-Sensitive Intervention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
Food SecurityGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
Forests support nutrition by supplying food products, providing a habitat for pollinators, and creating income-generating opportunities, among other benefits. This study provides additional evidence for the links between forest conservation and nutrition, determining that forest exposure is associated with significantly lower rates of stunting in low- and middle-income country contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
An Evaluation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising on Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Purchases from 2015 to 2017: A Before-and-After Study
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Food Systems
Policymakers and the public continue to debate the role of policy in limiting consumption of sugary beverages to reduce obesity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Launch: A Future for the World's Children
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeeding
The WHO, UNICEF, and the Lancet Commission released a groundbreaking report highlighting the dramatic threats to children’s health, development, and wellbeing due to existential threats, including climate change and predatory marketing of harmful products such as alcohol, tobacco, sugar-sweetened beverages, and breastmilk substitutes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Landscape Assessment: Food Processing in Feed the Future Investments
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Food Systems
Micronutrient Interventions
This executive summary presents highlights of an assessment conducted by USAID Advancing Nutrition to help USAID better understand food processing in Feed the Future programming and provide recommendations for improving food processing programming for better nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Food Systems and Nutrition Consultation Report
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This 14-page report describes a USAID e-consultation held in November 2019, with support from USAID Advancing Nutrition and Agrilinks. USAID invited academics, donors, implementers, private-sector actors, and other stakeholders to respond to an evidence review published by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition at Tufts University.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Multiple-Use Water Services: Toward a Nutrition-Sensitive Approach
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive AgricultureWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
With emerging evidence suggesting that stunting cannot be addressed without also focusing on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project wanted to better understand current WASH and water strategies that sought to bridge agriculture and health to reduce undernutrition at the community, farm, and household
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding and Applying Primary Pathways and Principles
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The pathways and principles explored in this brief provide a summary of the current state of knowledge of ways to use agriculture to improve nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Assessing the Application of Systems Thinking for Nutrition
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project conducted a review to determine how its systems framework maps to “real world” nutrition programs.